The new coronavirus pandemic has led the Sedgwick County Health Department to more than double its number of epidemiologists, the health care workers who investigate and analyze data on infectious diseases.
“We are the ones that if you come down with chicken pox or whooping cough, we’re going to be calling you to figure out who you’ve been around that could have given it to you and also who you’ve been around that you could have spread it to,” said Kaylee Hervey, the epidemiology program manager for the Sedgwick County Health Department.
“Our goal is always to prevent the spread of disease and protect the health of the public. With coronavirus, we’re essentially doing what we always do. We’re just doing it at a much larger scale.”
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